“A
Cheesy Fieldtrip” Ventures
Northward to Sprout Creek Farm
On Saturday, October 21st , Sprout Creek Farm will
welcome Anne
Saxelby of Saxelby Cheesemongers in
New York City and
cheese enthusiast Matthew Scott with a slew of fromage fans for a
day of cheesemaking in the autumn of the Hudson Valley. For $75,
fieldtrippers will have the chance to taste Sprout Creek Farm's fantastic
cheeses and learn how they're made, see the animals, and explore
the beautiful grounds. Proceeds will go towards Sprout Creek's numerous
educational programs. For more information, or to purchase tickets,
please visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6235.
Cheesaholics
Blog
Spring Means Lots of New Babies
Spring is here! Our 40 milking goats have begun delivering their kids! Click here and meet Ginger and Maryann, McKenzie and Gracie, Sambucca, and many more! Goat's milk cheese is soon to follow. Check the Market and Creamery pages for updates in the next couple of weeks. But first it's kids, kids, and more kids!
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Nubian Goats Join the Herd
What is capricious as a winter squall, curious as a 2-year-old, stubborn as a jelly stain, prefers the mezzanine to the ground floor and mid-air more than either — and eats tree bark and bananas with equal delight? What is completely assured, looks you straight in the eye, and is always but always in charge?
THE GOAT. OF COURSE.
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2006 Winter, Spring Programs
& Summer Camp Brochures
Now Available
Enrollment is now open for our Saturday programs as well as our day and sleep-over summer camps. Sign up now, as spaces fill up quickly.
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Download the Saturday Programs Brochure
Download the Summer Camp Brochure
New Labyrinth Symbolizes Spiritual Path
The Staff of Sprout Creek Farm and the all-female staff of the organic landscaping company Organic Matters created the only known labyrinth in Dutchess County, N.Y. on Nov. 9. Other local labyrinths are across the Hudson River to the west and north, as well as in Union Square, New York City in the center of the Green Market.
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A Tribute to Our Friend, Charlie Paul
Charlie spends long solitary hours on various tractors haying and brush hogging fields. That's where he does his thinking, he says — serious stuff, you know. But when he comes in the barns, with his broad smiles and infectious sense of humor, you'd think he hadn't a care in the world.
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Best of the Hudson Valley 2005
'Best Artisanal Cheese'
& 'Best Ricotta'
Sprout Creek Farm was voted best Artisanal Cheeses and our Ricotta is Hudson Valley Magazine's top choice.
Meet
us & Buy Cheese, Farm Products at a farmers market
Sprout Creek Farm has a winter stall
- Friday at the 97th St. Market, Manhattan
- Monday @ Union Square 16th St. near Park Ave. South Manhattan. MORE info on NYC markets
MORE cheese locations
Join
a Cheese-making Workshop at SCF
Three times per
week, the creamery at Sprout Creek Farm is set abuzz with the excitement
of the transformation of milk into cheese. Now, Sprout Creek Farm
offers you the unique opportunity to enter the creamery and work the
curds with your own hands under the instruction of cheese maker Brent
Wasser and his team.
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What
do Nuns, Cheese, Cows, Goats, Summer Camp and Social Justice Have
to do With Each Other?
Lani
Raider gives an overview of life at and the mission of Sprout
Creek Farm in "Life
as a Farm" in the March-May 2005 issue of The
Valley Table.
Download the article as a PDF. (13.8
MB)
